New note input modes allow you to play music on a MIDI keyboard in real time and have MuseScore transcribe both pitches and rhythms, either using the built-in metronome or your foot pedal to keep the tempo
New input mode to allow entry of rhythm first, pitches later
New command to rewrite rhythms to show beat divisions according to time signature rules
New and improved commands to change duration of existing notes while in note input mode, including adding and removing augmentation dots
Synthesizer improvements, including updates to the default SoundFont and better support for SFZ format
Ability to upload audio to MuseScore.com along with your score, so others can hear your score with your chosen SoundFont or SFZ
Improved historical tablature support, including lute bass strings
When changing instruments mid-score (e.g., from flute to clarinet), the transposition is now handled correctly
Improved selection controls, including the ability to select notes of the same pitch, duration, or notehead, and the ability to select or deselect all element types in the Selection Filter
New command to swap selection with clipboard (simultaneously paste to and copy from the selected range)
More controls: ability to reorder score tabs, customize pause length of breaths and caesuras, add/remove brackets on accidentals, set MP3 bitrate, add page breaks when creating albums, include fingering in tablature staves
New and improved templates and instruments, including various marching bands and percussion ensembles, a general percussion staff, more standard clefs for basses, additional ethnic instruments
UI improvements in Staff Properties, New Score Wizard, Edit Drumset, and other windows

Allow voltas on all staves
#14910: Piano Keyboard doesn't show notes during playback
New "Getting Started" tutorial score
#56786: Allow the bends input in a standard staff
#54761: Easier way to search an item in shorcut list
Add palette context menu to enable single palette mode
Play chords out of note input mode

UI

Display "Report a bug" and "Copy" button in About box
Fix "copy revision" button in About box on Retina display
Move Add button in time signature dialog in the same corner than in the key signature dialog

Templates and instruments

Add Chamber Music templates
Custom template files are now in the second category
Add Violins, Violas, Violoncellos and Contrabasses
Add Ukulele and Ukulele Tablature to the list of common instruments
Better abbreviations for Euphonium, Tuba, and Double Bass

Debug

Add command line option -w to disable the webview in startcenter
Add command line option to create template
Add originalFormat as metatag when importing a file

Continuous view - scroll horizontally through your score with no line or page breaks

Start Center - start-up window which lets you easily pick up your work in progress or create new scores—and includes old MuseScore Connect, which puts a MuseScore composer in the spotlight and links to the MuseScore music sharing website and social media

More supported notations - pedal change markings, grace notes after (trill endings), falls/doits/scoops/plops/bends, bagpipe embellishments, figured bass, ambitus, early music notations, more flexible time signatures, and a huge set of additional music symbols from Steinberg's new open source Bravura music font

Import/Export

Guitar Pro import - supports GP3, GP4, GP5, and GPX formats

Import PDF - addition of an OMR service to import PDF files

MusicXML import/export improvements - greater compatibility with other applications, ability to control degree of layout to be preserved

Fix #16692: Save and Save As dialogue boxes fail to open when Title contains colon
Fix last element in file format combo box in the File -> Open Dialog is empty on Mac OS X
Fix Two percussion clefs in palette
Fix #16301: Verbose program listing in Add/Remove Programs
Change default shortcut for voices to Ctrl + Alt + Voice number (Previous shortcuts were not working on Mac)
Fix small icons on Windows and Mac
Add 1024x1024 icons on Mac OSX for retina display
Fix: Fermata applied to rest isn’t positioned where it was placed until score is saved and re-opened
Better looking new score wizard on Mac OS X
Fix: Two invisible boxes in 'Lines'

Updates
Installer

Windows binaries are now signed with an Authenticode certificate
Windows installer is also available in MSI format to ease the deployment of MuseScore through Group Policy
Both Windows installers are signed with an Authenticode certificate

MuseScore 1.2 includes nearly 100 bug fixes, mainly in MusicXML import and export, notation, user interface, playback, styling and parts. With the much improved MusicXML support, you can now reliably import your sheet music collection from Sibelius or Finale into MuseScore.

A lot of effort went again into localizing MuseScore 1.2. The MuseJazz font has been extended tremendously for international alphabets. There are new translations for Estonian and Belarusian, and updates for the other 43 translations.

We also said goodbye to Moussorgsky’s Picture of an Exhibition, which has served us well as the MuseScore demo score for many years now. We found a worthy replacement in Marc Sabatella’s Reunion, which was composed specifically for MuseScore.

Last but not least, MuseScore Connect – which was introduced in version 1.1 – has been completely rebuilt. You can now search for sheet music shared by the community on musescore.com as well as search through your own collection and open scores directly into MuseScore. But this is just the start. From now on, MuseScore Connect will improve independently from the MuseScore releases.

MuseScore 1.1 is a bug fix release. The focus of this release was stability by reducing bugs, only a very limited set of new features were added. Several new translations were added.

New Features

MuseScore Connect
add sol notehead, alternative brevist notehead group, new symbols for old notation
fix #4526: Adding ties to chords
MuseJazz font includes triangle, circle with a slash, and other symbols for chords
MuseJazz font includes complete ASCII character set for text
New "MuseJazz" style to use MuseJazz for all text elements
New "Jazz Lead Sheet" template and style
New chord description (XML) files to switch between popular styles of chord symbols
Space / Shift-Space in chordname entry allows chords to be placed on beats with no notes
Tab / Shift-Tab in chordname entry skips to the next / previous measure
"Acoustic Bass" (pizz. default) added to instrument list

Bug fixes

Import/export

fix printing of images (fix #10140: Save as PDF with several images causes crash)
fix #11245: MusicXML doesn't save Tempo Text if there's no name
fix crash on capella import with timesig 0
import part name from MusicXML
Add support for notehead color in MusicXML export and import
Add shape notehead support in MusicXML export and import
add MusicXML testfile for noteheads
import & export harmony even if not on chord/rest in MusicXML
fix #10849: musicxml exports lyrics only with notes in voice 1.
note: file attached to http://musescore.org/en/node/10168 not handled yet
fix crash on WAV export in fluid
fix #9919: error on open/read musicxml was not handled
fix #9842: Tempo value not exported in Lilypond
fix #9830: Percussion sounds not exported correctly in MusicXML

Playback

reduce default reverb gain from 0.5 to 0.2
fix #11164: Synth control status on startup and audio export
fix #5142: Notes do not release together in Swing or Shuffle mode
fix playback start position when repeat in the score
fallback to default soundfont if can't load the preferences one

Usability and interface

open MuseScore maximize on very first startup
fix entry of underline character in lyrics entry mode
(for german keyboard press Strg+Umsch+"-", for english Ctrl+"_")
better handling of Tab key in text element
fix #11246: change default number of measures and pickup measure timesig
Restore ability to delete instrument name in place
Right click on instrument name for staff properties
new chordstyle is apply now immediatly
remove "what's this" in toolbar and help menu
remove delete button in symboldialog, fix system flag
fix #10935: fix Soundfont path //
fix #10934: double error message on opening a 2.0 score
add shortcut for navigating between score tab

Translation
+ New language: Asturian
+ All other languages are updated from http://translate.musescore.org

MuseScore v 0.9.6rc1May 21, 2010MacOS X UB

* The focus for the past weeks was to improve stability and fix as many bugs and crashes as possible. Besides that, improvements were made to the MuseScore code, the plugin framework, import & export and more.
* This RC1 contains the translations coming from the translation server and one new language has been added: Simplified Chinese. Also the pdf handbooks have been updated, including two new ones Japanese and Simplified Chinese handbook. A big thumbs up to all translators.
* The 0.9.6 Release Candidate looks different with the new wordmark being integrated. This includes a new splash screen, a new default background image and various tweaks.

MuseScore v 0.9.6b2Mar 30, 2010MacOS X UB

* Many bug fixes
* New F keys for Mac OS
* The installation path has changed from "C:\Program Files\MuseScore 0.9" to "C:\Program Files\MuseScore".
* The Windows installation file is 25% smaller in size due to a changed compression setting
* The available handbooks in pdf have been updated. There are a couple of new handbooks in the pipeline which still need a final check: Hungarian, Romanian, Russian. These will be included in the 0.9.6 Release Candidate.

New note input modes allow you to play music on a MIDI keyboard in real time and have MuseScore transcribe both pitches and rhythms, either using the built-in metronome or your foot pedal to keep the tempo
New input mode to allow entry of rhythm first, pitches later
New command to rewrite rhythms to show beat divisions according to time signature rules
New and improved commands to change duration of existing notes while in note input mode, including adding and removing augmentation dots
Synthesizer improvements, including updates to the default SoundFont and better support for SFZ format
Ability to upload audio to MuseScore.com along with your score, so others can hear your score with your chosen SoundFont or SFZ
Improved historical tablature support, including lute bass strings
When changing instruments mid-score (e.g., from flute to clarinet), the transposition is now handled correctly
Improved selection controls, including the ability to select notes of the same pitch, duration, or notehead, and the ability to select or deselect all element types in the Selection Filter
New command to swap selection with clipboard (simultaneously paste to and copy from the selected range)
More controls: ability to reorder score tabs, customize pause length of breaths and caesuras, add/remove brackets on accidentals, set MP3 bitrate, add page breaks when creating albums, include fingering in tablature staves
New and improved templates and instruments, including various marching bands and percussion ensembles, a general percussion staff, more standard clefs for basses, additional ethnic instruments
UI improvements in Staff Properties, New Score Wizard, Edit Drumset, and other windows

Allow voltas on all staves
#14910: Piano Keyboard doesn't show notes during playback
New "Getting Started" tutorial score
#56786: Allow the bends input in a standard staff
#54761: Easier way to search an item in shorcut list
Add palette context menu to enable single palette mode
Play chords out of note input mode

UI

Display "Report a bug" and "Copy" button in About box
Fix "copy revision" button in About box on Retina display
Move Add button in time signature dialog in the same corner than in the key signature dialog

Templates and instruments

Add Chamber Music templates
Custom template files are now in the second category
Add Violins, Violas, Violoncellos and Contrabasses
Add Ukulele and Ukulele Tablature to the list of common instruments
Better abbreviations for Euphonium, Tuba, and Double Bass

Debug

Add command line option -w to disable the webview in startcenter
Add command line option to create template
Add originalFormat as metatag when importing a file

Continuous view - scroll horizontally through your score with no line or page breaks

Start Center - start-up window which lets you easily pick up your work in progress or create new scores—and includes old MuseScore Connect, which puts a MuseScore composer in the spotlight and links to the MuseScore music sharing website and social media

More supported notations - pedal change markings, grace notes after (trill endings), falls/doits/scoops/plops/bends, bagpipe embellishments, figured bass, ambitus, early music notations, more flexible time signatures, and a huge set of additional music symbols from Steinberg's new open source Bravura music font

Import/Export

Guitar Pro import - supports GP3, GP4, GP5, and GPX formats

Import PDF - addition of an OMR service to import PDF files

MusicXML import/export improvements - greater compatibility with other applications, ability to control degree of layout to be preserved

Fix #16692: Save and Save As dialogue boxes fail to open when Title contains colon
Fix last element in file format combo box in the File -> Open Dialog is empty on Mac OS X
Fix Two percussion clefs in palette
Fix #16301: Verbose program listing in Add/Remove Programs
Change default shortcut for voices to Ctrl + Alt + Voice number (Previous shortcuts were not working on Mac)
Fix small icons on Windows and Mac
Add 1024x1024 icons on Mac OSX for retina display
Fix: Fermata applied to rest isn’t positioned where it was placed until score is saved and re-opened
Better looking new score wizard on Mac OS X
Fix: Two invisible boxes in 'Lines'

Updates
Installer

Windows binaries are now signed with an Authenticode certificate
Windows installer is also available in MSI format to ease the deployment of MuseScore through Group Policy
Both Windows installers are signed with an Authenticode certificate

MuseScore 1.2 includes nearly 100 bug fixes, mainly in MusicXML import and export, notation, user interface, playback, styling and parts. With the much improved MusicXML support, you can now reliably import your sheet music collection from Sibelius or Finale into MuseScore.

A lot of effort went again into localizing MuseScore 1.2. The MuseJazz font has been extended tremendously for international alphabets. There are new translations for Estonian and Belarusian, and updates for the other 43 translations.

We also said goodbye to Moussorgsky’s Picture of an Exhibition, which has served us well as the MuseScore demo score for many years now. We found a worthy replacement in Marc Sabatella’s Reunion, which was composed specifically for MuseScore.

Last but not least, MuseScore Connect – which was introduced in version 1.1 – has been completely rebuilt. You can now search for sheet music shared by the community on musescore.com as well as search through your own collection and open scores directly into MuseScore. But this is just the start. From now on, MuseScore Connect will improve independently from the MuseScore releases.

MuseScore 1.1 is a bug fix release. The focus of this release was stability by reducing bugs, only a very limited set of new features were added. Several new translations were added.

New Features

MuseScore Connect
add sol notehead, alternative brevist notehead group, new symbols for old notation
fix #4526: Adding ties to chords
MuseJazz font includes triangle, circle with a slash, and other symbols for chords
MuseJazz font includes complete ASCII character set for text
New "MuseJazz" style to use MuseJazz for all text elements
New "Jazz Lead Sheet" template and style
New chord description (XML) files to switch between popular styles of chord symbols
Space / Shift-Space in chordname entry allows chords to be placed on beats with no notes
Tab / Shift-Tab in chordname entry skips to the next / previous measure
"Acoustic Bass" (pizz. default) added to instrument list

Bug fixes

Import/export

fix printing of images (fix #10140: Save as PDF with several images causes crash)
fix #11245: MusicXML doesn't save Tempo Text if there's no name
fix crash on capella import with timesig 0
import part name from MusicXML
Add support for notehead color in MusicXML export and import
Add shape notehead support in MusicXML export and import
add MusicXML testfile for noteheads
import & export harmony even if not on chord/rest in MusicXML
fix #10849: musicxml exports lyrics only with notes in voice 1.
note: file attached to http://musescore.org/en/node/10168 not handled yet
fix crash on WAV export in fluid
fix #9919: error on open/read musicxml was not handled
fix #9842: Tempo value not exported in Lilypond
fix #9830: Percussion sounds not exported correctly in MusicXML

Playback

reduce default reverb gain from 0.5 to 0.2
fix #11164: Synth control status on startup and audio export
fix #5142: Notes do not release together in Swing or Shuffle mode
fix playback start position when repeat in the score
fallback to default soundfont if can't load the preferences one

Usability and interface

open MuseScore maximize on very first startup
fix entry of underline character in lyrics entry mode
(for german keyboard press Strg+Umsch+"-", for english Ctrl+"_")
better handling of Tab key in text element
fix #11246: change default number of measures and pickup measure timesig
Restore ability to delete instrument name in place
Right click on instrument name for staff properties
new chordstyle is apply now immediatly
remove "what's this" in toolbar and help menu
remove delete button in symboldialog, fix system flag
fix #10935: fix Soundfont path //
fix #10934: double error message on opening a 2.0 score
add shortcut for navigating between score tab

* The focus for the past weeks was to improve stability and fix as many bugs and crashes as possible. Besides that, improvements were made to the MuseScore code, the plugin framework, import & export and more.
* This RC1 contains the translations coming from the translation server and one new language has been added: Simplified Chinese. Also the pdf handbooks have been updated, including two new ones Japanese and Simplified Chinese handbook. A big thumbs up to all translators.
* The 0.9.6 Release Candidate looks different with the new wordmark being integrated. This includes a new splash screen, a new default background image and various tweaks.

MuseScore v 0.9.6b2Mar 30, 2010Windows

* Many bug fixes
* New F keys for Mac OS
* The installation path has changed from "C:\Program Files\MuseScore 0.9" to "C:\Program Files\MuseScore".
* The Windows installation file is 25% smaller in size due to a changed compression setting
* The available handbooks in pdf have been updated. There are a couple of new handbooks in the pipeline which still need a final check: Hungarian, Romanian, Russian. These will be included in the 0.9.6 Release Candidate.